Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-14
BULL FIGHTING IN SAN DIEGO.

A Weak-Kneed Creature Cruelty
 Teased and an AbIe.Bodted Bull Let
 Alone.
 From the San Diego Union.l
 Promptly at the appointed time and amid the blast of bugle the four matadores, clad in scarlet and each bearing 8 scarlet shawl, entered the arena, accompanied by an al- legged clown, half scarlet and half blue, whose strong point lay in his ability to make people tired. Then two picsdores, both mounted, entered, one bearing 8 pole with 8 sharp spike in the end of it, and the other
 carrying four-tined pitchfork. After many howls from the audience tame, sad-eyed, half-starved little bull ambled in through | the gate, as if his knees were weak and he was looking for a place to lean against.
 Then one of the picadores jabbed the pitch | fork into the mild-mannered little animal,
 and the other picadore, riding at full speed, | jabbed the spike into it's trump. The brute ! kicked and the crowd howled with delight when he ran here and there to escape from his prosecutors. Here the mataderes ap- peared on the scene and shook their scarlet shawls in the face of the creature; but he was evidently church member and kept his temper. Then the picadores chased the poor ] brute about by jabbing the pitehfork and the spiked pole into him until finally the crowd. seeing that the bull would not fight, yelled: "Open the gate." "Chase him out!" ! s'Oh, the calf" "He's no good!" 'sHe's a sheep!" and such expressions, and obeying i the will of the people, the gate was opened and the bull was chased out
 The performance was gone through with seventeen different times, and only in two | instances did the bulls show any inclination | to fight. On the first occasion 8 small but we'll fed animal made wild lunge at a mat adore immediately upon entering the arena. | The matadore, dropping his scarlet shawl, | fled for protection behind one of the five "shields''-little fences built up just close 1 enough to the wall of the arena to allow 8 | man to slip behind. The bull tossed the l shawl about on its horns and then plunged wildly at another matadore, who quickly 1 sought the protection of a shield. Then the | picadores prodded the brute most unmerci- | fully, and one of them, seizing banderilla, I stuck it into the neck of the suffering ani- l mal where it hung, and was soon covered 1 with blood from the wound.
 l The brutal treatment, instead of angering the bull, seemed to fill him with fear, but he 1 still continued to plunge occasionally at the
 matadores, and would doubtless have worked himself into fury had not the management l answered the cry of couple of spectators | and turned him out On the other occasion
 8 savage bull was led into the arena, and af- ter having received 8 couple Of thrusts rom 1 the picadores, began to snort and paw the l ground and make things decidedly lively for l the matadores. Most of the spectators were
 cheering themselves hoarse as every new
 wound was given the animal, when suddenly l the gate was opened and out the enraged bull rushed and was soon beyond ths sight of the vaqueros, who feigned to pursue him. At ] this the patience of the crowd seemed to ex- l haust itself, and the cheers of but moment before were changed to storm of misses and
 wild howls mingled with cries of 'Fraudl'
 "Put-up-job!" "Give us back our moneyl' Sc. The band struck up tune, but it was smothered by yells, and for a while pande-
 monium reigned. From that moment the l crowd became more and more dissatisfied
 and began to leave, and half an hour after it
 had dispersed, and even the matadores and | picadores had left the place. It was re- marked that the show had one good point:
 ''It had given the civilized spectators just enough of bull fight to show them what a
 brutal pastime the genuine Spanish sport I he D